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Is it natural that the unanimating and phlegmatic transactions of a court should engage a more unwearied attention, awaken a brighter invention, or incite a more arduous pursuit than those of love?

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by Godwin, William